Lyle London:
Studied with sculptor Varujan Boghosian and numerous visiting artists (Larry Zox, Dimitri Hadzi, Robert Indiana, Jack Zajac and others) at Dartmouth College in the late 1960’s. Zajac’s style of biomorphic abstraction has had a lasting influence on his work. After several years of carving stone and practical experience in the art bronze foundry, he began working primarily in metal. The intimate scale and pronounced formalism of earlier cast bronze pieces have given way to an increasing body of large scale commissioned works mostly in copper and stainless steel. Another important change in London’s work has come from incorporating a greater sense of spontaneity and fluidity through the use of high-tech fabrication techniques. Sculptures integrating water features and kinetic motion have appeared since 1985. 

  This sculpture illustrates the complex dynamics of a breaking wave. The piece is typical of the artist's style of organic abstraction and it was a tribute to John Lennon.

Love his works. 

Tomas Hlavicka:

“In my glass forms I try to incorporate decoration in a simple format so that it doesn’t overpower the object. Glass has the wonderful property of being able to optically enhance shapes and space with its refractions and optical illusions”.

 

Born in 1950, Tomas Hlavicka graduated as an architect and worked in the architectural field whilst at the same time being taught the techniques of glass art by his father-in–law Pavel Hlava, who is a prominent figure in glass, and one of the founders of the Czech school of modern glass.

 

“My pieces are made of float glass in between which are placed strips of various metals: silver, gold and copper. After the layers are made, the glass is brought to melting point and the chemical interaction of the glass and the metals create strips of colour that is an important component of my work. I am interested in design and as a result many of my pieces tend to have a functional aspect to them. On the other hand, I have great satisfaction in making pure sculptures, as I am drawn to monumental aspect of the finished piece. Glass is a beautiful material that allows me to realise my goals, which are to combine Art, Design and Craft in a single piece”.

 

As well as the international private collectors, his work is in the permanent collections of several museums, including the Kanazawa Glass Museum in Japan, the Riihimaki Glass Museum in Finland, Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague and the Dennos Museum, Mi USA.

Debora Moore:

Working in glass since the late 1980's. Her awards and exhibitions include the Rakow Commission and the Glasmuseet Ebeltoft. The list of Debora's professional travels grows by the year and covers several continents. She has researched moss and lichen in Antarctica and observed orchids in tropical rainforests in Asia, examining how these plants live in their natural environment. She combines realism and  imagination in her sculpture, meditating on the glorious wonder of nature and celebrating its power and mystery. 

I would have to say she is truly a gifted artist. the first time I saw her pieces I cried and that does not happen very often. It was actually kind of embarrassing but I got over it since her pieces really speak more than anyone can ever imagine.

Arthur Ganson:
Did you know that machines share all of the sensual passions and desires of humans? This one has the capacity to bathe itself in luscious, viscous 70 weight motor oil. For a machine, could there be anything more satisfying?
Arthur Ganson truly has a twisted mind the likes of I have never seen before. His ingenuity defies gravity. Check out his works and especially The above machine. He definitely has something for everyone. Enjoy.

Andy Goldsworthy:
A brilliant British artist who collaborates with nature to make his creations. Besides England and Scotland, his work has been created at the North Pole, in Japan, the Australian Outback, in the U.S. and many others

Goldsworthy regards his creations as transient, or ephemeral. He photographs each piece once right after he makes it. His goal is to understand nature by directly participating in nature as intimately as he can. He generally works with whatever comes to hand: twigs, leaves, stones, snow and ice, reeds and thorns.

Truly a talented artist and one of my favorite.

 Richard Craig Meitner:
The intellectual, poetic, and always changing work of the American artist Richard Craig Meitner (b. 1949) reflects a variety of influences and ideas, from Japanese textiles and Italian painting and applied arts to science and the natural world. The colorless glass surfaces of his quixotic objects often incorporate assorted materials such as rust, enamel, bronze, tile, paint, and print. Meitner revels in unusual juxtapositions of forms and ideas, in unanswered questions, and in the intersections between art and science.

"Perhaps we can say that art and science are attempts, by very different methods, to get at the same truths.  Both are directed at finding out more about ourselves, and the universe we inhabit, by studying and recording. Science attempts to explain the universe by assuming causality, linear time, and the existence of hidden rules or patterns which, if diligent enough, we can discover and understand. Art attempts to explain the universe more intuitively, emotionally, and even magically. Science depends largely on the genius of the intellect, and art on the genius of the spirit."
—Richard Craig Meitner, Glass Art Society Journal (2001), p. 66.

Meitner's aim in making images and objects, he says, is to create moments of astonishment and surprise, “magical” moments when the viewer, questioning what he or she is seeing, begins to think about things and the relationships between them in new ways. “Magic,” he says, “is a moment in which something happens that does not fit into your belief system.” When you are not thinking along established neural paths, you are thinking creatively.

Meitner’s desire to change the ways in which things are perceived and his on-going pursuit of beauty link him with the French Surrealists, who also worked in the realm of the marvelous (la merveille), where beauty was convulsive, a force of power and meaning. Meitner’s objects are related to the Surrealists’ “object-poems,” universes unto themselves where the physics of poetry reigns.

Through his work, Meitner does not aim to make statements about anything and he is not trying to tell the viewer what he knows. Rather, Meitner is trying to communicate what he does not know, and he does so using pictures rather than words. For him, art functions as it ideally should, which is as a place where questions are asked and not necessarily answered, a place where any and all things may be considered. If you think you understand Meitner’s objects at first glance, you need to look again.

“Masters of Studio Glass: Richard Craig Meitner” showcases a range of the artist’s work that is held in the Museum’s permanent collection, which includes early blown vessels, with graphic images made of fired enamels, to later multi-media sculptures. The 30 objects in the exhibition, dating from 1978 to 2001, span 23 years of the artist’s prolific career, and they show the many facets of Meitner’s artistic vision. The exhibition also presents one of Meitner’s installations, a series of four sculptures titled Ognico/Sahala/Suasta/Gione (For Everything There is a Season). This installation on the theme of the four seasons was commissioned for the Venezia Aperto Vetro exhibition in Venice, Italy in 1998.

Cerruti Baleri:
Must I say more! Shiek, avante gaurd, misterious, Sexual, A true desinger with much to say.
Not sure why but the last few days enthralled with furniture. Hmmm wonder what that means?

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